Sinsull, you're quite right of course, educated and enlightened women (men too) are not so easily persuaded to relinquish all powers over their own conscience. And total subservience to an individual (or system) ends when one strongly doubts either their moral basis or even their integrity. That was one of the reasons I finally decided not to become either a Catholic or a nun. I so much valued my freedom to think and act as I saw fit, according to my understanding of God, that I couldn't in all conscience surrender that to any Organisation or single human being (eg the Pope) I have issues even now with my own Church, and its stand over women Bishops and gay marriage. I used to say that I'm a Church of One, the 'Eliza' Church! But I suspect we all are members of Churches of One, in that we must each act within our own moral mindset.